The Newberry News

Our Summer at a Glance..

2010-08-10T21:54:00.008-05:00

I really have no excuse, so I will not even try. I have become used to posting on Facebook very frequently, so I have gotten out of the habit of posting here.

This summer we have been very busy. Todd and I were able to take 2 trips by ourselves this summer. Once to Austin and one to Las Vegas to Celebrate our 15th Anniversary (that is in 2 days).

We also traveled with the kids to San Antonio where we just camped and had a really great time. We went to Splash town and to Magic Time Machine. We also took a camping trip to Abliene with Todd's mom and dad, my sis and her kids, and Todd's brother and little boy. It was quite an experience where we thought they were shooting an episode of cops in the hotel parking lot next to us! LOL We sat around an read all afternoon while the kids swam and just had fun.

This summer Todd, Kamron and Tyler we able to go on their first camping trip with the Boy Scouts to Tres Ritas in the mountains of New Mexio for a WEEK in a TENT where it rained almost every day! They got to go White Water Rafting one day and had a BLAST!! Addyson and I had a SUPER time that week by ourselves too!

One of the best parts of the summer is our new kitty! We got a new kitty the week the boys went to Tres Ritas and she is probably the most spoiled member of our family. We LOVE her and she has been the best thing at getting Addyson to sleep in her bed!

My garden has done wonderful and we have had quite a few squash, zucchini, green beans, jalapenos, other peppers, TOMATOES, and we are waiting on the cantelope to rippen as well as the carrots. I love my garden and I am looking for ways to improve it next year!

Kamron and Tyler are playing football this year and they look so small in the football pads. They are LOVING it! I am anxious to get a picture of them in their pads to share, but I don't want to seem like an overbearing mother!

Today, 8-10-10, we were all able to witness the pig we loved and showed last year, Babe, give birth to 12 adorable pigs! The kids LOVED it. Kamron loved to help tie and cut the cord, Ty stayed in the background! I think we will be going to the Ferring House daily to check on these adorable little pigglets. They are so cute!!

Here is Todd an I in Vegas at the VERY fun Piano Bar!

4th of July and the Boy Scouts carried the flags in the parade
Kamron, Tyler and I went with the following group of our youth group to "Rock the Dessert" this past weekend in Midland. We were able to see some really great Christian Rock bands! IT was FABULOUS!! I will definately be signing up to be a sponsor again next year. Addyson got to go to Ruidoso with my mom and dad while we were gone while Todd went to his 20 yr reunion.

More Rock the Desert Pictures. We tried to stay under the canopy during the 100 + heat of the day and would walk around during the night time.

Here is our kitty Prissy... she reminds me of the picture of ET where he hides in the stuffed animals!

This is how Prissy sleeps many nights! I could not do it BUT it has kept Addyson in her own bed!! YEA!

The Pigs!! Look how cute they are!!

Addyson LOVES them!!

KAmron even helped tie off the umbilical cord! They were slipperly little guys!

I didn't get one picture of Tyler with the pigs! I will though!

School started for Todd on the 3rd, I go back Monday the 16th and the kids starton the 23rd! The boys will be in Jr High and Addyson will be in 2nd grade! Where are my babies??

Playing catch-up......

2010-04-24T20:48:00.011-05:00

I am uploading this for my brother since I don't think anyone else looks at this blog! :) I NEVER have any comments so I decided to give up on blogging, and got in trouble by Dain. So Dain, this is for you! Get on Facebook and you will see the same pictures!! LOVE YA!

A few weeks ago Deborah and I took the kids to Lubbock for a fun day! We went to "Blue Sky" for some sand box fun and wonderful greasy hamburgers. After eating lunch we took the kids to "Dave's Need for Speed" Here is Addyson and Riley, we really are arranging their wedding (they have to survive 1st grade first!) We are having doubts since they are both so strong willed. They may butt heads too bad to be married!

While Addyson and Riley were playing "Lights out Golf" the big boys were waiting in line for Laser Tag. They got the bright idea to take on all these other boys from this birthday party. Any guesses on who won that game??? LOL

Addyson and Riley played on these really cool bumper cars. They didn't jerk you around and they loved them!!

Kamron, Tyler and Jacob next went to the Go Carts!! Smile for the camera guys!!

Turn that hat around Kamron!!

Can you find Ty, Kam and Jacob??

Smile Jacob! Tyler...mom has the camera, THIS WAY!!

After our fun filled 2 hours, we stopped at the inside go cart. We couldn't get Mr Kyle to turn around for the camera, so DAVE himself stepped in to help out!!

The boys turned 11 a few weeks ago. The day of their birthday they went camping with Todd and the other scouts in 60mph winds and blowing dirt! (Sounds like a GREAT birthday doesn't it) The wind even bent out tent poles!! So... a few weeks late we had a few boys over. The kids have "Air Soft" gun wars at the playground. The main rule was everyone had to have protective eye wear! They all got along so good. It is so nice they are at an age to just let them be boys and play. They weren't too happy to pose for this picture, but they may see it in a few years when they are seniors in high school!!

Oh Kyle, I just love him!! Addyson wants him as a baby brother! He is the youngest of three BOYS. He lives, eats and breathes TRACTORS so when he stepped into Addyson's room he was in for a huge surprise. It took him no time to take off his John Deer TRACTOR boots and put on the fancy princess slippers and PINK sunglasses. HE pushed around a stroller with THREE babies all night too! He had a BLAST!!!

We have finally decided to do something with our yard... I know, we have lived in this house for 5 years. Today was the day. Here is the "before" picture of the front of the house.

We have had this "Topsy Turvy" for 3-4 years but I finally decided to do something with it. I have cherry tomatoes in it! Pray it grows!

The kids helped me plant some flowers in these little starters. I hope they grow too!

This is the area that we put our garden in!! I am so excited to have a garden this year. Todd borrowed a tiller and went to work. I am so glad it is just borrowed, he would be dangerous with one of his own!!

Todd at work......

Tyler mowing.....

Addyson sitting.....

Kamron smiling......

So we got the garden area tilled and Todd decided to till up the part of the yard that the grass doesn't grow. You can see the barren areas he is tilling. We got it tilled, fertilized, planted and watered. The boys said it would be a good area to plant sweet corn.......ummmm, I don't think so. I "think" I know someone who may share a few ears of sweet corn with us!

Here is the finished product! I hope in a few weeks I can share pictures of our new little grass growing!!!

The boys had a job of throwing away the tarp that went over the camper, they thought it was the hardest job EVER! Kamron fell in the dumpster while sitting on top! It was so funny!! LOVE ya KAM!!!!!

Addyson posing by her new hide out. She even conned me into giving her some fabric for a blanket to sit on. I think I had a small piece of fabric I could spare for her to use!

This is what the boys did most of the time we were working. Tyler in the fort, hiding from Kamron

Kamron and Addyson in their new fort.

Thankfully there were not too many pictures of me today. AND some of the ones my hubby took while I was bent over planting, will NEVER be anywhere for others to see. I was planting the seeds I bought. We have watermelons, cantaloupe, carrots, green beans, cucumbers, burp less cucumbers, strawberries, zucchini, crooked necked squash, strawberries, jalapenos, sweet cherry peppers, tomatoes, (I think that is all..) YES, all of that is in that small area.

Here are the plants planted, the peppers, squashes, tomatoes and strawberries

See the pepper already on the PLANT!!!!

Here is our newly planted grass area! The kids (and Dog) have been banned from getting anywhere close!

Here are the shrubs in the front yard. We still need our paver stones and our pretty flowers to go in front of the shrubs.This side is FINISHED! Kind of...

The other side of the door will be done tomorrow!

Our 1st Stock Show

2010-01-16T21:18:00.003-06:00

Yesterday was the Bailey County Stock show. Here are a few hundred pictures from getting the pigs ready for the show to the sale. We had to clip all the pigs hair. That was a definite experience for us all!

Addyson was "lounging" on Bullseye while he was patiently waiting for his turn in the chute.
Bullseye did good, but calmed down when I talked to him. I am the one that is going to have a very hard time taking them to Klemkies to be processed!!
Any guesses on how MANY times Addyson fell off the hut during the past 3 months??
Poor Babe...she SQUEALED the entire time they were clipping her. She hated it! Addyson did not like hearing her cry like that either!
Finally the show pictures! These are the pens that the pigs were in. You can see Todd in the back with a blue shirt on.
This is the show ring where the kids showed all the different animals
Addyson loving on babe...Sorry I forgot to turn the picture!
We learned that alot of the time at the stock show you wait.... We did lots of waiting! LOL
Addyson and Riley, one day these two....
Last minute instructions from our good friend Sam! We had so many people helping us. There is NO way we could of done this without Sam, Curtis and the Myers family! THANK YOU all so much!!!!!
Here is Tyler showing Bullseye. He received 2nd, Reserved Breed Champion for Bullseye and 2nd place for Babe. We are so proud how both boys did. They loved it!
Here is Kamron showing Stripes. Kamron received 3rd for both Stripes and Sammy. Stripes was in a really tough class so we were ecstatic with 3rd place. The Grand Champion Pig came from that class. Sammy was our pig with a few joint problems and we never expected to get 3rd out of her! She had never been walked until the day of the show and Kamron did wonderful with her! (I was videoing and snapping pictures...sorry the pictures are blurry. Too many things in my hand!)
My boys!!! I think we are hooked on the pig farming! We are already talking about having 6 pigs next year and going to a major show. We had fun this year!!
Thanks Lisa for taking a family picture!! (We dressed the kids this year, next year Todd and I will look like Pig farmers too!)
Addyson and Jessie "patiently" waiting for the pee wee show to start.
Addyson walking Babe in the Pee wee show. 2 more years and she will be out there with pigs of her own. She is ready! She loved it as much as the rest of us.
All the little kids got 1st place ribbons.
Tyler with his Res. Breed Champion trophy for Bullseye.
Kamron with his 2 third place ribbons!
The day after the show they have the sale. Many items are auctioned off and the proceeds go to help the FFA and 4 H kids with their animals. When Tyler was walking Bullseye in the sale, Addyson was able to walk with him and carry his trophy. All 4 of our pigs got in the sale! We were so excited. We were hoping that each boy got one in the sale and they both had 2! FUN FUN!
Here is the picture from the sale
Here is Tyler with Babe
The architect that MISD used for all of their construction "bought" Babe. The money is a donation and the child keeps the animal. Here is Tyler with them. Addyson became friends with her little girl.
The secret to keeping the pig still for pictures was FOOD! I always wondered how they got them to stand so still! LOL
Here is KAmron walking the Stripes in the sale
Picture with Stripes
Mr GQ himself! Check out his PINK shirt! He loved it and so did I! Great choice Kamron!!!
Kamron with his "buyer" Thurman and Sam. Thank you!!!!
I never thought we would enjoy showing pigs like we did. We plan on traveling to Houston during Spring Break this year and visiting Dain and Crissy. While we are there we are going to check out the Houston Stock show and Rodeo!

I will post Christmas Pictures soon, maybe tomorrow! I was too excited about the stock show to post Christmas first!!

Christmas in Abliene and the pigs...of coarse

2009-12-22T16:27:00.010-06:00

This picture is out of order, but I took it last night after Addyson had changed ALL of her babies(her 5 good ones) into their new clothing! 2 have new "bitty baby" clothing while the other 3 are sporting the "Walmart Preemie clothing line" She had a ball changing them all! Their names are:
Jason, Jennifer, Addyson holding Mollie, Jenny, and Lalie.

2 weeks ago one of the older kids in 4 H held a "Showmanship Clinic" to teach the kids what to do and how to show their pigs. I learned a TON!
Here is G using our pigs as examples.
Tyler working with "Bullseye" our Spot.

Kamron working with "Stripes" our Black Cross...see Rhonda, I think I have finally learned their breed!

Addyson with Bullseye

The kids had their Christmas program at church 2 Wednesday's ago. Here is Addyson with her BFF Jessie and little brother Kenny. He is a DOLL!

Addyson and Jessie

Kamron during dress rehearsal, at home! LOL

Addyson holding Jessie's baby sister, Casey!

One more of the 3 Musketeers!

During the play the kids sang "I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas" and this is Addyson's look during the Mommy and Daddy are MAD part!! I love her facial expressions!!! (See Kamron's big hair in the back!)

The show was our Music Director's remake of "America's Got Talent". Kamron was last year's winner! Tyler was the announcer and Addyson was in the choir! This was the boys last year in the Children's choir. Next year they will be a part of the gasp...YOUTH Department! (Tyler is not enjoying the hug as much as Addyson is!)
Addyson and her teacher! We LOVE Mrs. Lackey.
Saturday afternoon we arrived in Abilene at the Elegante. This is the only hotel our kids have ever stayed at (since we camp all the time). It is an AWESOME hotel and the kids were in the indoor pool within 20 minutes of arrival! LOL
Uncle John, Kay's brother, came all the way from Florida to visit. The kids loved having John around.
The hotel has "Happy Hour" and while the kids were drinking Shirley Temples, I had a Margarita. Addyson LOVED licking the salt off. YIKES!
Addyson and Mamaw. Addyson was born on Mary's 88th birthday! (This is Todd's grandmother)
While waiting patiently...cough, cough, to open presents....the kids made a train out of the extra chairs in the hotel restaurant!
Cousin Nicholas and Addyson were listening to Nana read the Christmas story in Luke 2. She was even quizzing them. See their hands raised to answer the questions.
Presents finally!!! Addyson got some really cute clothing and her American Girl baby clothing!
Uncle Cory, how do you describe him....he always give the boys the most fun presents, like the cars fueled by coke or other items found in the kitchen, or the bug maker, etc. This year Cory wrote on a box to each of the boys and then used a WHOLE roll, maybe not a WHOLE roll but close, of PACKING tape over the BOX! IT took them over 20 minutes to unwrap the box! Sorry Nicholas, we are already thinking about what we can do to your present next year! LOL

That is the tape we got off the boxes!!!!!!!!!
Nana made everyone stocking with lots of fun items in them. The boys got small Lego's, playing cards, etc BUT we ALL got Silly string! We had a Silly String fight in the hotel room with 12 cans of silly string. I am just glad that Nana started it!
The floor in the aftermath! We tried to pick up as much as we could, and even tried to locate a vacuum cleaner. We were unsuccessful though!
On our way out of town we went to Mamaw's retirement center and visited for a while. The kids did GREAT and played chess while we waited.
Nana and Grandear with all their grandbabies! Look how sweet baby Gabby is! (Wish you could of seen what Todd was doing to make her smile! LOL
The whole family!!! From the top: Cory, Todd, Tina, Kyra, Kay, Dan, KAmron, Addyson, Mamaw holding Gabby, Nicholas and Tyler
Addyson and Mamaw again. Addyson loves hugging on her!
Addyson holding Gabby...I didn't have my camera, but had my phone! Addyson loved it!
Merry Christmas to you all!!

He did it!

2009-12-09T20:39:00.003-06:00

Today is better. Thanks for listening to me whine! Today was the academic UIL meet held for our district. There was 5 schools that competed in various events and the meet was held at our school. Although it was a good amount of work for our staff, it turned out to be a great day! Since Kamron got sick last week, he has been very upset that he would not be able to participate in his "Oral Reading" event. We have had lots of tears at our house over him not being able to participate. Today I got to school and our principal asked if I would allow him to come up and read his poem and then return home when finished. It made his day! He had that sparkle back in his smile when I told him! Todd's mom came to Muleshoe to take care of him these next few days so she brought him up in time for his event. He made the finals and ended up placing 3rd out of 20! He did super! He was SUPER tired when he got home and went to bed quite early, but all the hard work paid off. Tyler was in Spelling and Listening Skills. He didn't place in Spelling but his Listening TEAM got 1st place! He didn't place individually but helped the team to 1st place! VERY proud of both boys. They did super today!

May I have some Cheese with my WHINE!!

2009-12-08T18:14:00.004-06:00

I have a feeling this is going to be a very WHINEY post. Please feel free to "X" out now if you are looking for something uplifting!

Because I do not Scrapbook, I often use this blog to record important things that happen in our life. This week has been very interesting and although I do not think I will forget it, I feel like I need to blog about it anyway. (I do have Thanksgiving pictures to post as well).

Kamron has MONO. He is one sick little boy. It started on Thanksgiving day, 2 weeks ago. He mentioned to me that he had some swollen bumps on his neck. We were in Mansfield at my sisters and he was in NO discomfort at all so we waited to take him to the Dr until the Monday when we returned. HE still felt fine at the Dr. office and was diagnosed with a sinus infection and put on major antibiodics. Things started going down hill from there. He never got better and started feeling ALOT worse. On Friday afternoon he came to my office complaining of his throat hurting. I could not believe what I saw. The ENTIRE back part of his throat and tonsils was COVERED in white pus. His tonsils were so swollen he was having difficulty breathing. We returned to the Peditrician on Saturday and she sent us to the hospital for labs. At the time she was 99% sure he had MONO. (Labs have since come back VERY positive, The EBV that is supposed to be 0-100, his is 1300!) HE is home all week and possibly next week. HE is extremely depressed about this and is missing UIL tomorrow. HE worked extremely hard on his oral reading poem and will not be able to perform.

Back to my whining....so Todd left on Sunday for Austin. Tyler started throwing up on Sunday night and Addyson complained all night about her stomach hurting. I stayed home with both of the boys yesterday and Tyler started feeling better so he went to school today. He came home today not feeling well and threw up AGAIN! We have 4 PIGS that I love, but the weather has not been to nice to us lately. With Todd gone I have had to go out to the pigs 2x a day and break ice and give them fresh water because theirs is frozen. I stayed home with Kamron today and Todd's mom is coming tomorrow for the next few days. It will be nice to have Nana here!!!

Enough WHINING: Here are a few pictures!!!

Here is Addyson in her new CHRISTmas dress I made.
Not too big to "pose" for mom!

Mr T playing one of the $0.99 games I found at Gamestop!! WooHoo!

Doesn't he look pitiful? He truely feels AWEFUL! He has been so upset about missing UIL, I wish there was someway he could perform, but just look at him...no way!

This was yesterday... doesn't he look jaundiced?? I did talk to the Pedi today and Mono affects the liver, so that is why. She said it will take 2-3 weeks for him to start feeling better and up to 6 weeks for him to be over it. Merry Christmas!! (Please PRAY no one else gets it!!)

Thanksgiving pictures: Here is my nephew-dog, Charlie. He LOVED the kids! The kids loved him too. I am sure he slept for days when he got home!

Charlie was determined to get up there with them!

The kids do a talent show every time they get together: Tyler was the "sound man"

Kamron reading his "Oral Reading" poem. He really did work hard! (His teacher even said she was pretty sure he would of placed.) He has a great poem for next year!

Charlie helping Tamora look at the circulars!

Sometimes LIFE just happens...

2009-11-11T19:56:00.004-06:00

I usually try to keep my blog posts happy and upbeat, just journaling about what is going on in our lives so I can reflect back later. I am ready for this week to be over! I do have pictures, but I am too lazy right now to go find my camera.

Saturday the Cubscouts went to the corn maize in Shallowater! It was a blast and the kids had so much fun. We did get extremely LOST but finally made out way out. After eating a sack lunch I received a phone call from my dad. My mom had fallen walking into a resturant and they were in the ER. We rushed from Shallowater to be with my mom (and dad). Mom has a broke foot on her right side and a broke left wrist. We are very thankful and praise God that her injuries were minor!

Today after school I took our kitty, Nala, to the vet to be put to sleep. It was time. She has not eaten in 1 1/2-2 weeks and was just withering away. They think she probably had some type of cancer considering she was only 2 1/2 years old. Addyson LOVED Nala, as did the boys. We were in line tonight at church to eat and I looked down at Addyson and she was crying. I asked why, and she just hugged me and said she was missing Nala. Todd is out of town until Friday...(I don't do single parenting well) and will probably regret this later, but I will let Addyson sleep with me tonight and snuggle. She is going to be sad for a while.

The kids LOVE to take pictures of Nala with my camera...I am glad they did!

Halloween Preview

2009-10-27T21:48:00.003-05:00

Sunday afternoon I sewed ALL day... Look what I did! Isn't she an adorable midevil princess!!!

Here is the back...It is laced up. I hand placed all 24 "eyelets"

Her daddy bought her some silver shoes today while he was in Lubbock!

EVERY evening I have one of the kids argueing over sitting with me. They were in bed last night and Todd thought this was too funny not to share! When the kids are in bed, BOTH the cat and dog are in my lap!! Tonight Addyson was sitting with me and when she got up, Shelby, the dog, jumped in my lap. Addyson pouted and got so mad at Shelby!! It was quite comical that she was mad at the dog. LOL

PIG pictures below!!!

Here Piggy, Piggy, Piggy...

2009-10-27T21:31:00.003-05:00

This year the boys are in 4-H and they wanted to show pigs. Todd and I know nothing about raising pigs but we are giving it a shot. The kids are so EXCITED! Here they are... I do not remember all their names but will tell you the ones I remember :)
One is "Stripes"... Could be this one or our other strpied pig.

Here are the pens. We have 2 boys and 2 girls. They are seperated into 2 pens. The upper one could be "Stripes" or "Sammy". I think there is a Sammy as well. The bottom one is "Babe". Not sure when this is all over if I can eat Babe! Did you see even "Priss Pot" is in the pens!! Maybe if she gets used to them being little, and we go out daily to visit, she won't notice when they GROW!

The spotted pig is "Bulls-eye". That is the only one Tyler named and he was pretty insistant that Kamron did not name him!! LOL

Tyler is working hard cleaning the pens. The boys WANT Todd to wake them at 5:45 to go feed and water the pigs every morning before school. They love it now...I hope it stays that way!

Even I was working in the pens spreading hay!! Todd was all dressed for Scouts so he didn't get dirty. He was plenty filthy tonight though. There are heat lamps in each "hut" to keep them warm. To be honest, I really like them!

Preview of Halloween to follow!!!!!!!!

Grandma Schuette's 100th Birthday Bash

2009-10-25T20:39:00.005-05:00

This past weekend was my great-grandmother's 100th birthday. A huge party was planned and there was over 200 people in attendance. It was alot of fun seeing cousins that I have not seen in 13+ years.
This was a picture of Addyson and Nala the other evening. It was too cute not to share!

Addyson had to take a painted pumpkin to school for Halloween, we made BOB from Veggie Tales!
PARTY PICTURES! Here is my grandmother (my mom's mom, my dad and my sister). Even though my brother was not there, he made us laugh as always!

5 generation picture: Me, Amy (my grandmother), Cindy (my mom), Addyson and Great-grandma Schuette.

We had to add the boys to the picture too!!

Here is Grandma Schuetter an ALL her kids. Mary, Dianne, Grandma, Terry, Amy (my grandma) Doretta, and Jodi

The kids played at the adjacent park ALL day. We did not see much of them at all. The boys got to go to the Tech/ A&M game with Todd and PaPa. They had a BLAST!!

Addyson, Kiersty, and Ashtyn (Tamora's kids)

Ty, Addy and Kam

The 5 cousins!!

Ashtyn, Kierstyn

Tyler, Addyson and Kamron

Addyson ADORES Ashtyn

Me, mom and Tamora

Ashtyn and Addyson got ahold of our cameras and took the funniest pictures!

Brandy, April, Tamora and Kyra.

We had more fun growing up and hanging our together. It was really sad that our kids do not know each other. We are definately going to have to change that!!

FOX Channel 34 came and interviewed Grandma! Addyson and I were on the NEWS! I can't find it on the website, but when I do I will post it!!

Aunt Debbie (BeBe), Uncle Greg and my mom.

We were EXHAUSTED after the long day at the party. We had planned to take the girls to the Corn Maize in Shallowater but were simply TOO tired! We stopped at my dad's sister, Aunt Martha and Wayne's and ended up staying about 2 hours. We sure enjoyed talking to them! To make up for not going to the corn maizee, mom took the girls to Target and bought them all boots. They are too cute! I think Addyson would of slept in her's tonight if I would of let her!

Tired Addyson and Aunt Martha.

FUN weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cubscout camping trip

2009-10-21T20:04:00.008-05:00

This past weekend we went to the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge with the cubscouts. There were about 50 kids running WILD having a BLAST! Addyson and I went too, but I insisted that we take the camper. Tent camping is not my cup of tea. Addyson, myself and another mom (Addyson's teacher last year, Mrs. King) slept in the camper. We FROZE! With no hook-ups we were not able to run the heater. BURRRRRR.......
Todd and the boys set their tent up right next to us. The other leader had his tent on the other side. The "kitchen" was in the middle. It was a GREAT set up!

Here is Tyler helping dad set up the tent.

This is the inside of the tent. Todd's parents bought it for him last year for his birthday. Check out the "closet" in the back. It is a COOL tent!

The one and ONLY picture of me the whole weekend. One of the boy scouts was there and I have taken care of him at school for the past 4 years and he didn't even recognize me. SAD!! We were making Dutch oven peach cobbler! Yum!

While the boys waited for everyone else to come, they played Skip-Bo. We were there at 10:00 am and everyone else didn't arrive until 4pm!! My husband likes to go early!

While the boys were outside playing Skip-Bo, Addyson was inside the camper reading my new "Twilight" inspired People magazine! LOL

The early bird GANG!

This is the "kitchen" set -up. Our tent is on the right and Terral's tent is on the left. The two camp stoves were set up on either side where hot coffee and water for hot chocolate was always ready. The white tables were used to organize the smore making activities.

We made Bug Juice...aka Fruit Punch. All the kids were RED!

Everyone arrived and all the tents got set up! There were tents EVERYWHERE! One of the Boy scouts brought a chess set and taught the cub scouts how to play. They loved it! Addyson is with Amy, her teacher last year in Kindergarten. She still LOVES Mrs. King.

Cubs (in blue) Boy scouts (in red) had a great time together! Check out all the tents and the metal fire pit. We had 3!

Todd talking to the gathered boys...

Group picture....now that is alot of boys!

Going on a hike, last year on the same hike they spotted Fred, the fearless rattlesnake! Thankfully this year Fred was hiding! We did have Shovel man...just in case!

The scouts went to 3 stations; hiking, leather works, and knot tieing. I brought jewlery making supplies and me and the little girls made jewlery! They loved it!

Leather works:

Knot tieing:

We roasted hot dogs and ate smores. When it got cool, we drank hot chocolate. When it got dark we broke out the glow sticks! Addyson got tired, at 8:00, so NOT like her and climbed in her surrogate mom's lap and was OUT! LOVE this picture!!

And this one:

And here is GRUMPY the next morning!!! She refused to go to the outdoor bathrooms. They were not bad at all! We were there over 24 hours and she went ONCE!!! Can you say, Miss PRISS!!

Did I mention we FROZE???? LOL (Kamron in black)

Bright and early and playing chess again! (Ty with the black beenie hat)

After breakfast, Todd led everyone in a small church service/bible study.

We got home around 11:00. Unloaded, showered and ate subway by 1:00pm. I was asleep by 1:30 and woke up at 5:00pm! I was EXHAUSTED!! We had a blast and I know the kids did too!

Fun with the PUMPKINS!

2009-10-18T20:14:00.002-05:00

Last Friday we headed out to the Pumpkin patch with our best friends. Our Homecoming Football game was cancelled (The other team forfeited....think they were scared?? LOL) Tyler was spending the night with a friend so there is no pictures of him. He had PLENTY of fun riding 4-wheelers and shooting 22's at Jayden's house.
Here is Kamron, Jacob and Kyle in the tractor. Kyle sure loves his daddy and those tractors!

I LOVE this picture of Kyle. He loves dirt too!! LOL
Addyson and Kyle running in the pumpkins. This field had already been picked. These were the pumpkins that didn't make the cut. We grabbed a few for carving. It was a BEAUTIFUL day and the kids had a blast. I do not think they wanted to leave. Kamron and Jacob went off playing and got to ride the 4-wheeler as well. It was great that each of the boys got to have so much fun apart from each other!

Climbing on the HUGE piles of pumpkins waiting to be loaded on to the semi trucks.

Addyson had her best friend with us after school so she got to come along to the pumpkin patch as well. It was just a great day!

Addyson, Jessie, and Riley...3 Muskateers

Cubscout Raingutter Regada

2009-10-18T19:52:00.004-05:00

A few weeks ago, Muleshoe Cubscout Pack 620 hosted our area's first Raingutter Regada. The kids made boats that they raced down "Raingutters" filled with water. They each made their own boat and decorated it. Here is Kamron racing:
Here is Tyler racing, he had been sick and had been doing breathing treatments 2 times a day. He could hardly breathe much less blow through a straw!. This was his only race. :(

Kamron on the other hand did really well! He raced ALOT and ended up winning 1st place!

Award time:

Kamron with his first place metal.

It was a great first time experience for Muleshoe!

I know, I know...

2009-09-09T20:03:00.004-05:00

It is really bad that your brother has to email you and say "Hello...why haven't you updated your blog!!" Well, he didn't exactly say it that way, but pretty close! LOL School has started and life is officially crazy again. I am just utterly exhausted and trying to get our routine down again. That is no excuse, I know.

First Day of school photo: Crazy how much taller Tyler is than Kamron Addyson walking into school.

I didn't get a picture of the boys at school, they are not to fond of that anymore!

Last Monday I watched one of my friends 3 children for a few hours. Tyler LOVED Miss Casey. Look how he held her! Kamron played with three yr old Kenny and Addyson and Jessie were inseperable.

Last weekend the boys and girls in the family went seperate ways! Todd and the boys stayed in Lubbock with my dad and went golfing and to the Tech game. They had a BLAST! On Sunday they went to the Lubbock KOA and camped with Todd's mom and dad in their new RV. Todd slept in our new tent (that I will NEVER be in!). The boys were able to swim in the indoor heated pool. Todd had a camera, but forgot to take pictures.

Mom, Addyson, my grandmother and myself loaded up and traveled to Mansfield to visit Tamora's family. What a super girls weekend we had! We took the girls to Dallas to the American Girl store and Bistro. (Sorry mom, your eyes are closed in my picture!!) Memaw loves to spoil the grandkids!!

Addyson and Kierstyn putting on their plays! We are going to have some serious black mail one day!

All dressed up, where should we go now??
All the girls~ Tamora, Mom, Kierstyn, Granny, Me, Addyson and Ashtyn
4 generation picture!
The girls again, doing a play. To hear Kierstyn talking like a lady at a nail salon was hillarious!!
Muleshoe is 2-0. 2 down, 13 to go! I hope we have a year like last year. That was too much fun! Friday we play cooper at Cooper. We will be there cheering them on! Have a good week!

(Are you happy now Dain?? LOL)

Mini Mule Cheer Camp

2009-08-16T16:54:00.003-05:00

Mini Mule Cheer Camp was this past Friday and Saturday. Addyson had a blast! I put a few video's of her on youtube. I hope I can get them here too. She learned a dance and a cheer!!
Addyson is in the denim skirt. Her cheerleading skirt was dirty. (It was quite the issue that morning!) LOL
Here is the dance:

Here is the cheer:

Photopass Photos

2009-08-08T23:13:00.011-05:00

I received our photopass photo's today that we purchased on CD and here are a few. There were over 300, don't worry, I didn't post them all. They took our picture at each park:

This is my favorite picture! You will probably be seeing it on a Christmas card!

They put Tinkerbell in Addyson's hand!

Typhoon Lagoon. We had a BLAST in the wavepool!!

Picture #1 of the decent of the BIG wave!

Picture #2...Waiting for the wave...... the boys are READY!

Picture #3... it got us! And knocked us down!

The "Family raft" ride that they would only let 4 ride in. They got pictures of the boys but not Todd, Addyson and I. Addyson and I even rode it again for a picture and they missed us again!

Typhoon Lagoon before we got in the water

Kamron dodging the camera from the princesses..

FIRST look in the mirror seeing herself after they dressed her up!

Tink again..........LOVE IT!

Family picture in front of our FAVORITE! Rock n Roller Coaster!

Hollywood Studios

LOVE this picture of the boys!!!

And this one!!!!!!!! She looks way too grown up!

Riding Test Track at Epcot!! FUN!

Downtown Disney--LEGO STORE!

2009-07-27T20:31:00.005-05:00

We went to Downtown Disney one evening. It is a large area with MANY shops. It is the epitome of Disney Shopping. They have one of the largest Lego shops, which is the reason we went, but we had to walk around first. Tyler got so frustrated with us going into other shops and procrastinating going to the one store he wanted to go to! It became comical.
The dragon was made entirely out of Lego's

The family of Lego's

I love Tyler's face. This was probably his favorite part of the whole vacation!

Lego men on the Wall..........WOW!

After searching high and low, he finally narrowed down his choice!!

Also at Downtown Disney was Disney QUEST, an indoor interactive themepark. It was AWESOME! Massive amounts, 3 stories, of free video games and rides. It was neat to be inside after walking in the heat all day.

Please pray for Stellen. He is not doing well and needs us all to lift him up in prayer. My heart breaks for this family!

Bibbity Bobbity Boutique--Addyson

2009-07-24T20:03:00.007-05:00

We finally made it to Magic Kingdom, "Where Dreams Come True". We only stayed 4 hours this first day. Just enough time for Addyson to go to the salon and have some fun with the princesses. We came back a few days later and stayed the whole day. I will have those pictures next. This day was about Addyson. The boys were super with that, they had been having so much fun on all the big rides, they totally understood that this was for her. (Plus we were going to "Downtown Disney" that night where they have a HUGE Lego Store). Here the kids were as we entered Magic Kingdom. Had to get a picture with the Castle!
We arrived at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique and the guys headed out to find some "manly" rides. LOL

Addyson wore her Snow White dress that I had made her for Christmas last year, but you could of picked from one of these dresses. These came with the crown, shoes, wand, etc. They really know how to make a little girl feel like a princess!

Just getting started, not to sure what she was thinking. They give them a brochure and get to pick their favorite hair style.

This is Addyson's "Fairy Godmother" and she introduced herself as so!

She LOVES her crown. I have even duplicated the hair do yesterday. I didn't do to bad either!! LOL

Make up and Nails... We got to keep it all, of coarse we paid for it!

Then it was Pixie Dust time!! It was the NEATEST shimmery glittery powder. I asked where I could buy some and her fairy godmother told me that "Tinkerbell doesn't give it out. Only to the boutique" Addyson LOVED that! (The princesses and fairies were real, remember)

They finally turned her around and let her see herself in the mirror. Priceless picture!!

This is the back!!!!!!!!! Love the Mickey Ears that BLING!

Right after we left the boutique and she was still beaming, we ran into the "white rabbit" from Alice in Wonderland. He grabbed her hand and she went and rode the Tea Cups with him. She LOVED it. Everyone was staring wondering who that little girl was with him. It was great!!

Does she look happy or what!

When the ride was over he let me get a picture with all the kids. It was FUN!

Next up, Downtown Disney

Hollywood Studio

2009-07-22T19:52:00.004-05:00

Hollywood Studio's was our favorite park. Well 4 out of 5 of our's favorite park. Addyson like Magic Kingdom the best. Hollywood Studio's was magical for us "older" children. The rides were AWESOME!! Tyler's favorite was the Twilight Zone's Tower of Terror. It takes you really high up and drops you. Addyson was too short so I "had" to stay with her. Kamron chose to stay with us as well! Todd, Kamron and myself LOVED the Aerosmith Rock-n-Roller Coaster. Disney has the greatest invention called "Child swap" If a child is too short to ride a ride, like Addyson was, they gave us a 'Fast Pass' and one parent stayed behind with the child while the other one stood in line for the ride. The wait time was short that morning so Todd and the boys rode it first. They LOVED it!! When they got off, the boys rode it with me again AND we didn't have to stand in line!! IT was AWESOME. It was hands down the best ride we rode. LOVED the Aerosmith songs blaring and the 0-60 mph in 2 seconds and the upside down in the dark thrills were great too! Another high profile ride was Toy-Story Mania. If you don't look at any of the links, you HAVE to look at this one. This ride was amazing. We stood in line for 20 minutes just to get the Fast Pass. When we returned to ride it 3 hours later the stand by wait time was 120 minutes...2 hours wait time. We enjoyed just walking onto the ride. The Fast Passes for the day were out in 2 hours. CRAZY!! IT was a fantastic ride though. We stayed at Hollywood Studios from open to close that day. We rarely did that but was just having so much fun. 95% of the rides located here we rode. The Star Wars one we rode 3 times. The kids loved it. We stayed late to watch Fantasmic, the laser water light show that evening. We waited 2 hours in line for a good seat. It was SOOOO worth it!! Here are crazy pictures while we were waiting: Mom was a sucker for light saver souvenir's that lite up and changed color's.

The kids could of played at the "Honey I Shrunk the Kid's" playground for hours. We definitely relaxed there while they played.

Aside from the night firework shows the BEST show we saw was the "Light's, Motor, Action, Extreme Stunt Show! Check it out! Here we were waiting for them to open the doors. Once again we had AWESOME seats. I have 2 FANTASTIC books that helped me plan this trip. If you are planning on taking the plunge and going to Disney, email me and I will tell you which ones. They were invaluable!!

In front of the Star Tours ride they had an "Imperial Speeder" that the kids got to sit on. I had to make Addyson sit on it but she loved it once she was on it. The boys LOVED it!!

While poor Addyson endured the endless waiting with me while the boys were riding the "grown up rides" she posed for a cute picture.

At Disney they take pictures of you and group them all together on our Photopass card. When we got home I plugged in our photopass numbers and all the photo's from the trip they took were grouped together. I can share them with you if you let me know you want me to. Comment on my blog or shoot me an email and I will invite you to look at them.

Next up...Magic Kingdom and the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique where they turned Addyson into a PRINCESS!! She LOVED it!!!!!!!!

Animal Kingdom

2009-07-22T13:38:00.004-05:00

We went to Animal Kingdom on Saturday. It was not our favorite park, but one we enjoyed. I think the horribly hot and humid weather with no breeze probably added to the less than enjoyable time at Animal Kingdom, plus it was Saturday and was definitely more busy than Epcot was the prior day. We stayed from 8-1. We took our lunch into the park and that worked really well. We decided to do it every day like that. Our favorite attractions at Animal Kingdom were the Kilimanjaro's Safari, Dinosaur, Expedition Everest, and Primeval Whirl. The Safari was awesome and Addyson LOVED it. Everyone but Addyson loved the Dinosaur ride. It took you back into time like Jurassic Park did and at one point a HUGE T-Rex jumped out at us. The picture from the ride was priceless. I had her head in my lap and her eyes were covered the whole time. She has no idea what the ride was even about. If we have any chance of getting her out of our bed at night, shielding her from that ride was a wise choice! The boys all rode Expedition Everest. It is one of the Roller Coasters that Animal Kingdom is famous for. We went there first since the line was small. I had a rule that anything that Addyson was big enough for she was riding. We made it to the front and her heart was beating out of her chest and she was bawling before we even got on the ride. I made a quick decision to not make her ride it and it turned out to be a good one. Todd and the boys LOVED it. Todd said it was way to intense for her and we are glad we opted out at the absolute last minute!! The boys and I rode Primeval Whirl and waited for an hour in line! They were not taking fast passes for that ride and we thought it was going to be awesome. We were so disappointed. Addyson was too short but would of loved it. The large playground at the park, the kids posed all on their own for these pictures. They are so funny!!

She tried so hard to do what the boys did!

Being silly one more time!

Then dad said NO more! We want a good picture!

We were waiting for "It's a Bugs Life" 3D and a really nice lady took a family picture. There were so many 3 D shows in all the parks. Some were really great. This one wold of scarred any little children. Thank goodness ours loved it!!

Carved from wood!! WOW

Look at the carvings in the tree. There were so many like this. They were really neat!

This is Expedition Everest!

Next up, Hollywood Studios! It was every one's favorite that was over 7 years old. Addyson loved Magic Kingdom the best!

Epcot, 1st full day at Disney

2009-07-22T11:41:00.007-05:00

We started the Disney World journey at Epcot. We started there because I had reservations in Norway for our character lunch with the princesses. Pictures below. We also met all the other characters. It was a SUPER way to start our vacation. Epcot ranked up there as being one of our favorite parks. We LOVED the ride Soarin' and Addyson will tell you it was her favorite. We rode it twice thanks to the Fast Pass. The boys LOVED Mission-Space. Addyson and I opted for the "less intense" green version while the boys did the full force orange version. To give you a little glimpse at how intense it is, each seat is equipped with barf bags! The boys loved it! Todd didn't enjoy it as much. We also loved Test Track. Picture to follow. It was a 5 minute ride that went 60mph at one point! Addyson loved Nemo and Friends. They also talked with Crush from Nemo in an interactive show. It was really neat!! It rained daily on us so during one of the down pours we took the time to stand in doors and visit some of the characters. Here are the pictures.

I just LOVED the pictures with Addyson and Minnie. Minnie LOVED her outfit and Addyson's smile never went away!

Look how cool Kamron is, they didn't enjoy the characters as much as Addyson did. (Or so they said)

The one who started it all... Mickey!!

Here we are at the Princess lunch. Focus on Addyson's face. It was priceless. I am only posting a few, I have a ton catching her staring at the princesses. She truly 100% thought they were the "real" princesses. She even told me that they slept in the castle every night.
Ariel from Little Mermaid:

Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty:

Addyson talking with Cinderella.

Snow White, Addyson's favorite.

LOVE this picture of her! It captures her whole emotion when she saw each princess this is the look she had!

Family Picture with Bealle from Beauty and the Beast.

Eating our exquisite lunch at Norway.

Epcot has the famous jumping water. Guess how many pictures I had to take to catch the water in mid air! LOL

Waiting for test track!! The first ride we rode!! I love this picture of the boys. They LOVE the roller coasters! Can't say I blame them, I do too!!

Looking at the sting rays waiting for "Crush" to start.

One of Addyson's favorite rides, Nemo

Test Track!!!!

Next up, Animal Kingdom!!

More on Ft Wilderness...

2009-07-22T10:04:00.005-05:00

Here are a few pictures of the kids fishing in the pond behind the camper. A guy fishing beside them caught some big fish. We didn't however, but they had fun trying!

Look at Addyson stand there, do you think she is a born fisherman or a princess??? LOL

When we arrived at Ft. Wilderness we had decided that we were NOT going to spend the extra money to rent a golf cart to get around the 400+ acres at the campsite. They had internal buses and the kids had their scooters to make it easier on them. After ONE day that was out and we rented a golf cart for the remaining 7 days! LOL So much for the exercise that I wanted to get while we were there. It was the best spent money of the WHOLE trip!! LOL

This is the pool at the campsite. We swam most of the time in the evening after being at the parks all day. NO sunscreen when you swim at 10:00 at night, right! The pool was open 24 hours a day with 2 life guards on duty from 10-10 every day. The kids would of loved to swim daily! They loved the slide!

One night we went to the campfire and sing along with Chip and Dale. We were made to do the Chicken dance and the Hokey Pokey. I think the kids liked that mom got out there and did it with them. That is one video I will not be putting on here! LOL During the campfire the kids roasted smores and had a super time. They wore their swimsuits and we skipped out on the movie and opted to do our nightly swimming instead.

Addyson and I at the campfire.

We only spent 1/2 day at Animal Kingdom and came home and rested. The kids were all sound asleep and there was a family of ducks walking through our campsite to the water. It was so cool!! During our stay we had 2 Armadillos, a family of ducks, a snake, too many frogs to count, snails, and mosquito's that we saw next to the camper. I have to say that the snake freaked out Addyson quite a bit!

Epcot is next for sure!!

Monticello to Fort Wilderness in Orlando, Fl

2009-07-21T23:01:00.005-05:00

Were HERE!!! After 26 hours DRIVE time, Probably close to 30 hours total in the car getting to our destination, we made it!!
We stayed in Disney's 400 acre Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. WOW! It was impressive!

We arrived by 2pm and began preparing camp like we have done numerous times. We began to pop UP the camper, and it would not go! We were quite stressed out to say the least. After about 4 hours and many phone calls to Lubbock where we bought the camper, and a really nice person who worked at Ft. Wilderness, it was a dead battery and blown fuse. We jumped it and it was smooth sailing. We did have to make a dash to the local tourist trap Walmart for a new battery, they didn't have our speciality fuse. Here is the camper before we were highly stressed! We had our own little pond behind our site that the kids fished at.

Here is the pond

Located directly next to the pond was the huge playground. I wish we would of spent more time at the campsite, there was soo much to do there. Horse back riding (Addyson was too young, we will be doing it when we go back) the coolest pool ever, Mickey's BBQ, Chip and Dale's campfire and nightly movie.

Tyler checking out the scenery

Up next...Epcot

Houston to Monticello

2009-07-21T22:41:00.003-05:00

Were not in West Texas anymore, Dorothy! I think you could become claustrophobic driving to Florida with all the trees. We drove through the CAPITOL of Florida and didn't see one building. I wonder what Floridians would think of Muleshoe, TX? We left Houston at 4 am and headed on the next leg of our journey. This was the worse time in the car. We had hit our limit...14 hours in the car with 12 1/2 driving time was rough! It didn't help that I had put Addyson's new earrings from Aunt Chrissy on too tight and she woke up in the car SCREAMING that her ear was hurting! I thought it was another ear infection (because she told me it was the inside of her ear..)and had even called the pedi in Lubbock and had decided that once we reached Orlando I would find a clinic to take her to. 23 hours later, I took her earrings out and OMG!! Her earring was digging into her ear and her ear was white from the pressure. Talk about bad mom!! Thank goodness we had not gone to the clinic yet. Wouldn't that of been great when they found out I was a nurse and what I didn't catch with my own daughter!!
We stopped in Monticello, Fl (outside of Tallahassee) and spent the night with Uncle John, Todd's uncle. We had never been to his house and had a fabulous time. We introduced him to "Jalapeno Poppers" and I think he loved them!

The drive to Orlando from Monticello was ONLY a measly 4 hours so we slept in before we drove on to Disney.

Here is a picture of John and Treina and the kids. They bonded and felt like we had been there many times. We loved spending time with you John!! Thanks again for the awesome hospitality and the great goodies you sent with us! We LOVED it all!!! Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!

Next up.....Disney Day one... What an adventure that was~!

Houston Day #2

2009-07-21T09:09:00.003-05:00

The second day we were at Houston Dain, Todd and the boys woke early to pouring rain for their golf game. Houston had not seen rain in months and it POURS the day they were planning on golfing. By lunch it was clearing up and they were able to head to the coarse. Christina, Addyson and I went to the outlet mall. It was so fun!!
What a beatiful golf coarse!
Dain, Todd and the boys.
Kamron

Tyler

Tyler also shot his first birdie and Dain put it on you tube. Here is the link... you have to check it out!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0899HN6hiPo
No pictures of Chrissy and I shopping but we had fun!

WE ARE HOME!!!

2009-07-21T09:00:00.002-05:00

We are HOME HOME as the kids keep saying. We traveled 3500 miles in 16 days and had a super time doing it. I have over 600 pictures I took, don't worry, I won't share them all!! LOL We drove home from Houston yesterday and picked up all the animals from the granparents. Our sickly kitty Nala was so glad to see us. She slept with the boys last night and purred (she never purrs). Our inside/outside cat that stayed home had a suprise waiting for us in the house when we got home. She brought a bird into the house. There was a pile of feathers by the doggy door. YUCK! It cleaned up easily thankfully. Thank you Deborah, Memaw and Nana for taking such good care of our zoo! It was nice to not have to worry about the animals because I knew they were so well taken care of. I am going to do individual posts of each day we were gone. That is my plan anyway, and you know how well my plans change!! We have so much to do now that we are home, unpacking, laundary, grocery shopping, etc but blogging is one of top priorities!!

Maybe a few more days

2009-07-14T19:07:00.000-05:00

I am still posting from my phone, checked out WiFi, not feasible. They give you a huge modem in a box... not t easy to sit by the pool with! LOL. We leave on Friday for Gulf Shore, Al. Search on youtube.com "Tyler's first birdie Houston" and see Tyler in action! Thanks uncle Dain..he is so proud to be on youtube!

Having a BLAST!

2009-07-12T23:28:00.000-05:00

Well, I had good intentions of updating my blog daily...isn't going to happen. We are on running on adrenaline and loving it. I am posting this from my phone and promise to have tons of great stories and photos soon. Right now, sleep is more important! LOL. I can't wait to share our vacation with you. it will bw soon I promise!

Houston day #1

2009-07-06T21:47:00.005-05:00

We made it to Houston! Todd woke up at 3am on Sunday morning and said, "Let's GO" so we jumped in the car and headed off! I am really glad he did because we got there around 1:30, right after lunch. Dain and Chrissy had prepared a gourmet meal for us and it was FABULOUS!! Pork ribs and some type of smoked sirloin butt meat, no clue but it was awesome! We rested in the afternoon in their beautiful new house. Today we woke up and traveled downtown to NASA. WOW! We had a blast!

Dain is a eye glass rep and gave Addyson these discontinued frames. She LOVES them and will not take them off. They are just glass, but she thinks she is so cool!! She needs nothing else this whole vacation, she has it all with those glasses!!

We took one of the tram tours immediately upon arrival while it was somewhat cool. In this building they have full size replica's of the shuttle. I have pictures of the shuttle but thought you would enjoy looking at the family instead!

KAmron and Tyler are Star Wars fanatics! They got to meet Darth Vader and 2 Storm troopers. They LOVED it!!

Addyson was not as impressed!! LOL

They had the coolest "ride" where the kids were in harnesses and went through a maze like Indiana Jones. The boys loved it and Addyson did it, but it wasn't her favorite.

We also got to shoot these neat guns that were Clone War Blasters. It was dark in there and I didn't get good pictures of us inside.

The boys did a relay race through this pitch black room with lasers that they had to avoid. KAmron went first and got the best time of everyone that had gone before him....ALOT! We were so excited and then Tyler went and beat Kamron by 4 TENTHS of a second!! Isn't that hilarious!! Here is the score board!

After Nasa we headed to the boardwalk and KEMAH. It was fun. We got there about 4 and went to Joe's Crabshack for some appetizers and drinks. We were hot and thirsty!! I am not sure how much DP and Sprite the kids had!! LOL Dain and Todd got Oysters (2 dozen...YUCK) and we had some yummy calamari and crab dip. Kamron ate an oyster. He came really close to throwing up at the table and then I almost followed after he was gagging. Not a pretty sight. Of coarse Dain was agging him on the whole time. He is better than me!!! YUCK~~ After Joe's we went to "The Beast" a really fast tour boat. I asked a lady in front of us to take a picture and she didn't get Chrissy in it. Chrissy is behind my big ol head! These are our "before" pictures!! LOL

This one is so funny because Todd can not stand hat to be worn backwards, HUGE pet peeve!! They didn't want their hats to fly away!

We went really far out in the bay. It was FUN!! The people in the back were getting pretty wet but we were smooth sailing UNTIL he slowed down and deliberately DRENCHED us!! WOW! WE WERE SOAKED!! See how much Addyson LOVED it!! LOL (I could of wringed out ALL of her clothes, undergarmets included!!)

Chrissy is on the boat!!

The boys are playing golf tomorrow and the girls are hitting the outlets. I doubt I will have any fun pictures, but we are eating at a really great restaurant tomorrow night!! (We had ice cream for dinner tonight, it is vacation, right??)

4th of July

2009-07-06T21:34:00.003-05:00

We had a wonderful 4th of July! Muleshoe had it's annual parade and it was AWESOME this year! I think it was the best parade yet. The theme was "Blast to the Past". The cub scout float won 1st Place! How cool is that!! Here are the scouts on their float. Todd was "supposed" to be Elvis also, but decided to let Kamron take the glory (that is his story anyway!)

Our little ham, Elvis!! He had the moves and all!

Addyson and Kyle, he was mesmerized by her toenails!

Tyler and Kamron

Tyler, Addyson and Kamron

We started our vacation shortly after the parade and headed to memaw and papa's for hotdogs and watermellon. We missed the fireworks since we had to get up so early for our ong drive to Houston! Check back for more vacation photo's!

Fun with grandparents

2009-06-22T16:50:00.007-05:00

This last week was the Newberry children's first week of swimming lessons in Lubbock. It worked out that Memaw took the week off and Tamora and Kierstyn came to visit Memaw and Pa Pa also. Kamron and Tyler stayed with Nana and Grandear Newberry and cousin Nicholas (from Dallas). The boys went to VBS at Bacon Heights every morning and I got them for swimming lessons. We had a awesome week! I do not have many pictures of the boys since they were with Nana the majority of the time (but I am sure she took plenty for me!!)
Here is Addyson and Kierstyn the first day when they saw each other. The were so silly!

We played outside most nights. The girls brought their bikes and played with colored chalk. They drew "monsters with cavities" on the sidewalk, and Addyson saw a red ants TEETH!

We went to Legacy Play Village one morning before it became 105 degrees. The little girls wore Memaw out!! She loved every minute of it! (Ashtyn was in Oklahoma at soccer camp loving life!!)

Who is doing more work here... Memaw or Addyson??? Addyson looks more concerned about keeping the sun out of her eyes!

Memaw and her "little girls" who are quickly growing up!

One morning, they headed out for a pedicure and manicure!! SPOILED!! (We love you mom!!!)

Memaw took them to Justice and bought the cutest outfits ever!! They were our little "Hanna Montana's"

The boys would spend many evenings with us too. One night we went to Joyland and had a BLAST! We really did wear out Nana and Memaw that night. Cousin Nicholas came too. It was a fun late night!!
Tyler diving into the pool at swimming lessons. They are working really hard on diving. He is getting better every day! Keep those legs up Ty!

Mr. Kamron diving. He is doing great!

2 afternoons after swimming lessons we headed back to Memaw's pool in her neighborhood. It is the BEST pool! Nicholas and Kierstyn joined in the fun.

Kierstyn jumping in "mid air"

Addyson "mid air!"

One day at the pool, we met one of our friends from Muleshoe there. She still has a house with her sister in Lubbock and the kids loved seeing her there! Miss Addyson LOVES her. I am not sure how relaxing it was for her that day!

Our two little fishies!

All 5 kids!

Driving home on Friday. They were tired!!
We were freezing Addyson out and I keep a blanket in the car for when Todd freezes me out! She looks like "Little Red Riding Hood"
We have been planning a big trip this summer for a while. We kept it from the kids until last week. I ordered these shirts and they got to open them. I don't think it totally sank in until a few days later. We leave in a few weeks and we are so excited!! I "hope" to blog each night about what we did that day to share with family. I will try.

School's OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-05-30T18:41:00.011-05:00

School is OUT!! Hallalujah!!!!!!!! This is going to be a pretty long post with quite a few pictures! I had uploaded about 20 pictures last weekend and our "fair haired" child disconnected me from the internet before it saved! So it has taken me a week to try again. Here is a picture of Addyson and her baby both sleeping. They both are in our bed EVERY single night! Even Nala loves baby "Mollie"

Western Day at school had us accessorizing with Addyson's tourquoise boots! I thought we did a pretty good job!

At the annual track meet at DeShazo Kamron won first place!

Tyler got second!!!!!

Addyson's birthday party was FUN! We had 6 squealing little girls spend the night. They had a BLAST!

The boys were dreading the slumber party, but I think they even had a little fun! They pulled the girls around the back yard in our wagon. The girls LOVED it!

What is a slumber party without DRESS UP!!!!!!!

At 12:30am MOM said LIGHTS out!!! I was exhauseted! Did I mention that the track meet was earlier in the day and it was also Addyson's Western Day! We were tired and the girls were running on adereline!

Opening presents the next day! Mr. Riley, Addyson's best buddy came to play too. Addyson wanted him to spend the night too, but I don't think he would of enjoyed having his finger nails and toe nails painted!!

Instead of cake we had Krispy Kreme donuts and fruit! YUM!!

Two words.... Rosetta Stone! The boys and Todd are learning Spanish and LOVING IT. The computer gets fought over daily to get onto Rosetta Stone. The quiz each other, and give them a year, lets see how much they learn! You have to talk into the microphone and use correct pronouncation of the words. It is hillarious to listen to the boys speak Spanish!

For her birthday, Addyson got a barbie with her dog. You take the dog for a walk and it POOPS! You clean it up and the dogs keeps walking. Who thinks of these toys??? (Don't ask how you get the "poop" into the dog!!)

Kamron was inducted as next years Muleville PRESIDENT! Here he is conducting the last of the meeting where he was inducted. What a honor!

Here is Kamron being sworn in as the next president.

Kindergarten graduation!!!!!! Addyson with Grace and Jessie, her buds!!

Addyson and her "diploma" She is a big 1st grader now!! Sniff sniff!! Where did my baby go?

Addyson and her teacher, Mrs King! We love you Mrs King!! You have loved her like your own and taught her so much! How can we ever thank you?

At the boys awards assembly, Kamron received Hononr Roll, Prompt and Regular (he only missed 1 day for being really sick), and he was the ONE student chosen out of his class for OUTSTANDING student!! WTG Kamron!!!

Mr Tyler got PERFECT attendance, HONOR Roll, the Science award and the TOP AR reader in his class award!!! WTG Tyler!!

AND the biggest news of all.... I have a new niece!! Miss Gabriela Rosemarie Newberry was born last night to Cory and Tina Newberry (Todd's brother) I got a text with a picture and she is BEAUTIFUL!! Mr. Nicholas will be such a great big brother! We can't wait to go see her!! Congrats again Uncle Cory and Aunt Tina!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

2009-05-11T19:13:00.013-05:00

Today my baby is 6....WHEN did that happen??? I feel like I had her yesterday. She has become a sweet, loving, sassy little girl who we love so very much!

Our itty bitty 5lb baby girl :

Birth announcement picture:

Addyson turned 1... What fun we had!!

Here she is almost 2. She has the CUTEST #2 birthday outfit and I can't find a picture! Now I am a little worried!!!

(Update..Nana came through and emailed me a pictue of Addyson in her #2 outfit!!! Thank you Nana!!!) And Todd got a panicked phone call at school that I can't find 2 years of photo's!!!!!!!

Here she is around the age of 3. Same thing, I can't find her birthday pictures!! Slightly panic stricken...
Age 4, right before Easter (and her birthday)

# 5! What an awesome Tea party we had!!!

And here is today:

She LOVES her baby!!!
Here is her new baby that "creeps" out the boys! LOL They say it looks too real!

Memaw and PaPa got Addyson all these COOL tub toys! She LOVES them. I had a hard time getting her out of the bath before, NOW it is even harder!! (Look at the little ones quirting!)

Here is a picture of Addyson as a baby wearing the same preemie outfit that her new baby "Mollie" is wearing in the SAME blanket. Addyson even asked me to wake her up in the middle of the night to feed her baby. I went through all of Addyson's old baby blankets and preemie outfits for her to play dress up. She LOVED it!!!

We love you baby girl!!

Special Kids on Mother's Day

2009-05-10T21:18:00.007-05:00

I first want to wish my SUPER mom and mother-in-law a HAPPY Mother's Day. We LOVE you so!! Here is my mom, Memaw, with all the grand kids. Kamron, Ashtyn, Tyler and then Addyson and Kierstyn.

My mother-in-law, Kay with Addyson. I am lazy tonight on the laptop in the bedroom and do not have a picture with all the kids and Kay. Sorry...

I had a GREAT Mother's Day. After church we headed to Clovis and had a SUPER lunch at Shogun.

After lunch we ran to Walmart to pick up a few grocery items for the week. Addyson was exhausted. This NEVER happens:

At school on Friday the kindergarten classes put together a "Mother's Day" tea. It was so fun. Here is a few pictures and a short video of a song they sang.

Addyson will be turning 6 tomorrow...where did my baby go? I can not wait to show off her birthday present. I had a little photo shoot tonight but I will refrain from posting pictures of "her" until she has actually seen "her"! LOL We are having a slumber party next weekend with 6 little girls. She is so excited. Check back tomorrow for birthday pictures and pictures of the last 6 years..... sniff...sniff....

Legos, Tee Ball and Field Trips

2009-05-02T21:59:00.006-05:00

Tyler and Kamron have been playing with their Legos non stop. They have built some pretty neat things. They took these pictures and wanted me to share:

This is their base. They have 4 of the star wars "walkers" and they battle.

That is alot of star wars men! LOL

This picture needed to be turned. I didn't realize it until it was to late. sorry

Addyson and 2 of her friends today at their first Tee ball 's game. WE FROZE! I thought it was MAY! IT was in the 40's with freezing wind!! Poor babies froze (the boys and I froze too!)

Addyson had just scored and saw me with the camera! I love this picture!!

Instead of doing what she was supposed to, Addyson was jumping and dancing in the outfield. I can't believe I got her in the air!! LOL These kids were so funny!

Addyson up to bat! Kamron took this picture for me while I used the Video camera. Thanks Kam! The boys decided to not play baseball this year. We didn't force them and so far they have not regreted the decision!

Last Monday, 2 days before ALL field trips across county lines were banned, I went with Addyson on her field trip. We had a really great time. Here is Addyson's class (minus a couple) with her teacher, Mrs. King

The rock wall was the favorite of all the kids! Thankfully no one got hurt.

Addyson watching the bubbles race.

Driving the race car!!

These little girls were dancing! They were sooo funny!

The three amigos for the day!

Addyson and Jessie inside the big mouth!

Such a hard day! They slept almost the whole hour on the bus on the way home!!

The boys were supposed to have their field trip on Thursday but it was cancelled. They were very disappointed but their teachers made the day so special! They deaded to the park with jump houses and candy. Tyler had to cut the day short because he ended up with the stomach bug...YUCK. Thankfully, no one else has got it yet!

I know, I know, it has been too long...

2009-04-29T20:55:00.008-05:00

It has been crazy around here and I have been falling way behind on blogging. I have lots of pictures to share and will have small captions with each picture. (It is really bad when you get scolded by your mom for not blogging!! LOL)

Addyson and I had a chance to go see "Annie" the broadway play with our best friends here in Muleshoe. It was a GREAT day!! We had such a good time.

The 3 amigo's being really silly with their booster chairs waiting on going into the show.

Addyson, Tobin and Riley

Before Addyson and I saw Annie, we both got pedicures. We went to a place in Lubbock that had small Spa chairs. She LOVED it!! It was so fun! She has asked many more times about going again. I have created a monster!

She watched Alice in Wonderland during her pedicure.

While Addyson and I had fun at Annie and getting pedicures, Todd and the boys froze their hiney's off camping in freezing weather at Post. It is nice we each have our own version of fun. LOL Here is a picture of the group before heading home that Sunday morning. (It was REALLLLLY COLD)

Todd took our boys and 4 more with him.

It was a camp for Boy scouts and they are only 2nd year Webelos. They had a great time and saw what they get to do next year as Boy Scouts.

They even pitched their own tent, cooked their own food and washed their own dishes!

Here they are when they first arrived at Post. They were still full of energy.

Over Easter we traveled to Mansfield and visited Tamora and Nathan and the girls and Dain and Chrissy met us there too. Mom and dad came down ealry Friday morning. It was so nice to all be together! Todd made all the kids, including Dain, a marshmellow shooter that shot nerf bullets. We were all targets. I have a nice picture that I am not going to share of my chest/neck with a big welp from my loving husband shooting me! Here is Chrissy and the little girls. It is such a shame that the kids don't like Dain and Chrissy! LOL

Hunting eggs. Some had money in them!

READY, SET, HUNT!!!

Dain and Todd helped the kids color eggs while us girls went shopping one afternoon! You two guys are the BEST!!!

How sad is this picture! We all brought our lap tops and Check out the barbie laptop the little girls were playing on. Webkins is so much more fun when you have a friend online! LOL

Easter morning with Memaw. Look how nice they look!
Easter morning with Papaw. The kids were so tired of pictures by this point.
I have finally started sewing again. I made this about a month ago for Addyson...

I made this on Saturday, (The picture was taken with my phone, sorry it is blurry)

And this, Addyson's little best friend has a matching one and cousin Kierstyn is getting one for her birthday as well. I have also made Addyson's birthday outfit, but I don't have a picture yet. Sorry mom!

SWINE Flu..............Field trips are cancelled, no travel outside of the district, kids are disappointed, WASH, WASH, WASH your hands!!!

Prayers Please

2009-04-15T20:06:00.002-05:00

I know I have not updated in a while, and I have lots of pictures and fun things to share, but right now my heart is breaking. Yesterday a precious 5 year old lost his life. I can't imagine the pain his family is going through right now. He was my mom and dad's next door neighbor. Addyson and Braeden were 3 weeks apart in age and have grown up playing in the front yard together. 4 years ago he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He has gone through numerous surgeries and chemotherapy and was doing wonderful. Yesterday during his therapy riding horses for Hippo therapy he fell from his horse and hit his head. A fall that would not of normally been fatal, killed this precious child. He was their life. He was their only child and since he had been sick, he was their whole life. PLEASE be in prayer for this family. My mom and I will attend the funeral on Saturday. Pray for us too.

Proud mom!

2009-03-29T18:48:00.007-05:00

We had the boys birthday party on Friday night. It was the night of the BLIZZARD. We had planned to go to Clovis to a movie and out to eat, but when the wind and snow came down, we quickly aborted that idea. Todd went to our local lumber store and bought supplies for all the boys to make their own "marshmellow shooter" AKA nerf bullet shooter. I think the boys shot them for 11 hours straight before Todd took them away at 2 am so they could get a little sleep. I do not think they even slept at that time. We have over 300 nerf bullets in the house from all of the various guns over the years. At one point, I was sitting in my chair being used as a shield. I had my newly bought "Twilight" DVD case as a shield from the hundreds of bullets flying through the house. After a few boys got hit in the eye, they all began wearing protective goggles. Big lesson learned. I think all the boys had a super time and they were very tired on Saturday!

I tried to get the bullets in mid air and got three! One of these bullets got stuck in the light fixture of the fan!
While Kamron and Tyler had their sleep over, Addyson got to go to a sleep over too. They made tie-dye shirts and played with Katelyn's little puppies. Addyson had a blast! She wanted to come home with a puppy, but mommy said said "No" on that one. She did wake up this morning saying she dreamt about the puppies. She is still trying to get one!

Kamron sang at church this morning. He was so nervous this morning. The last time he sang he wasn't nervous at all, but today was a little different. Todd went up with him and he sang the song, with tears in his eyes. He had 1/2 the congregation in tears when it was all over and a standing ovation! I was proud! I videoed while he was singing and this picture is of our wonderful pastor talking to him after he sang.

After church today, both sets of grandparents were here and we had a great lunch and the boys got to open presents from Nana and Grandear and Memaw and Papaw.

The boys got really neat Star Wars kites from my mom and dad and some much needed summer clothes. The boys got money from Nana and Grandear and were THRILLED!! Uncle Dain and aunt Chrissy sent them a new Wii game. They have played it non stop! Thanks again, they loved it!

Addyson and Nana

Kamron with his kite. He was making a really funny face and would have a fit if he knew I put the picture on here.

Tyler with his kite

Tyler being silly

Addyson and her daddy

Here is my hair over my birthday, see my new video camera! The boys have been dying for me to show my new hair. So here is the before picture:

And me as a blonde!! My idea of light highlights and my hairdresser's idea of light highlights was a little different. It is growing on me and mom told me today that it makes me look younger, so that is always a plus! LOL

Miss Addyson, I took her to the Dr this past Thursday in a little panic. On Wed when I got her out of the bath I noticed her entire lower half of her body was crooked. Horrifyingly crooked. It was so noticeable I could not believe that I had never noticed it before. Todd became extremely worried and I called first thing Thursday and got her in that afternoon. I really thought she had scolosis. Even though her back was straight, that was all I could think of. Well, it is not scolosis. Her right leg is 2 1/2 cm shorter than her left leg. It is about an inch. Who knows why, but of all the things that it could of been, we will take this. We see the Pediatric orthapedic doctor on Thursday April 9th as we head to Dallas for Easter. Keep our little princess in your prayers that this will indeed be "nothing" or as close to nothing as possible!

9 more weeks of school! We are counting down the days. (60 including weekends, 41 actual school days!) We are ready for summer. Everyone has spring fever!!!

Happy Birthday Boys!

2009-03-26T19:55:00.006-05:00

My "babies" through the years:
Here are the boys a few days old. They were less than 3 pounds in this picture. The basket was about 10 inches in diameter that they were BOTH in. This picture is deceiving. They were TINY!

Happy first birthday!!

2 years old! Aren't they CUTE!

3 years old with cousin Ashtyn in the middle!

Happy 4th!

Pre K graduation and they boys were 5!

Hanging out at cousin Nicholas's birthday and they were 6!

Turning into little boys, here they are at 7!

Blowing out candles with Nana, they are 8.

Last year we did a HUGE camping trip birthday and they were 9!

Tonight after eating at Leals where they got to wear the sombrero and have sopapialla's, we gave them their presents from us. We got them air soft pellet guns. They were SPEECHLESS! Super excited! We are having 4 more boys tomorrow night (6 total) for a sleep over. We were supposed to go to Clovis to a movie and to eat out, but we have a BLIZZARD coming so we are renting movies and ordering pizza!! Happy birthday baby boys! We love you and are SUPER proud of the wonderful young men you have become!!

Spring has Sprung!

2009-03-23T21:21:00.001-05:00

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Spring Break... a week in review!

2009-03-22T18:19:00.007-05:00

It is Sunday evening and Spring Break is OVER. It is a bitter sweet. The school year will be over in 9 weeks, but we have to get back and finish those to get to the summer, so bitter sweet. We had a great week. After we cleaned the house and the yard, Tuesday we traveled to Amarillo for the day. Our first stop was Palo Dura Canyon. We just drove through and spent about an hour there. We will be returning in April for a weekend camping trip! Here is Addyson looking through the binoculars at the canyon.
Kamron, Addyson and Tyler

Mr. Tyler

While we were driving through the canyon there were many deer on the side of the road. This deer was "talking" to Todd. LOL

After we left Palo Duro we went into Amarill for lunch. Our plan was to go to Coyote Bluff for some lunch. Take a look, it is a HOLE IN THE WALL place that was featured on Diners, Drive In's and Dives on the Food Channel. We were excited to eat there (well I was until I saw the building) and it was PACKED at 11:30. We had whiney, hungary kids (and adults) so we skipped out but will definately have to try again!

We made it to an awesome place after lunch called Jump-n-Jive. It was so neat! It is an old Dunlaps building that has 15 + jump houses that the kids had a BLAST. We were there for 5 hours that day. Todd did take a few pictures of me in the Jump houses, but they didn't turn out, oops! LOL

Tyler sliding down the HUGE slide. I didn't attempt the slide this time. Past memories of taking down about 10 kids behind me rang in my ears.

Kamron on the slide

Addyson posing for me.

I played alot in this one with Addyson. It isn't enclosed!! LOL

This was a running bungee jusp thing. The kids LOVED it!!

The kids LOVED this obstical coarse. It was not my favorite. It was a little hard for this momma!

Wednesday we were outside and Todd flagged down the Schwan truck for some Sundae cones. Addyson sat next to Todd and just talked. LOVE this picture!!!

Mom, this is the laundary basket we got for Christmas. The kids FIGHT over who gets to sit in it. (The boys birthday is Thursday, hint, hint!! We need 2 more!!)

I finally sewed again on Wednesday. I am still in the process of RE-READING all the Twilight books and have 200 pages left on the last book, SO I need to start sewing again. Anyway, this is what I made. Addyson wore it on Thursday while we went to Lubbock. I got my hair highlighted and the kids went to a movie with Todd. Be prepared for the next time you see me! I am SUPER BLONDE. I should post a picture but I am still a little self conscious. I better get over it since school starts again tomorrow!! LOL

On Saturday, uncle Cory, aunt Tina and Nicholas all came to Muleshoe with Nana and Grandear. The kids made Nicholas a marshmellow shooter like their's and they were anxiously awaiting them to walk through the door to pelt them with nerf bullets! No one was safe on Saturday!!

Addyson LOVES Tina! Tina read numerous books to Addyson while we were at Nana's. Tina is about 29 weeks pregnant with a little GIRL. Addyson is going to have another girl to play with! This is going to be one spoiled little girl!! We are all so excited for her to get here! (Sorry the picture is dark!)

These next photo's are our little "Photo shoot" in the trees!

BACK TO REALITY!! The boys birthday is Thursday. They will be 10. I can't believe it! It seems like only yesterday they were my teeny tiny 2 pound babies. Have a great week!

Is it Spring OR Summer???

2009-03-16T20:18:00.004-05:00

Spring Break is here! We are not planning on doing much, getting the house clean and cleaning the yard were our top priorities but we got those done yesterday and today. Now we can have some FUN! After cleaning the yard today, Todd was fixing sprinkler heads. I was cooking supper and heard the kids screaming, this is what I found:

Kamron was taken by suprise when the water hit him in the chest. It was about 75 degrees today, but not really "sprinkler" weather!
I Love this picture of Tyler! He saw the water on it's way. Notice the jeans he is wearing. I had to peel them off of him. LOL

The three amigos! They played so well together today. We were at the playground before the water activites and Kamron was burying Addyson in the rocks! She was SO quiet, which is not like her, and when I asked her what they were doing, she told me she was "Playing DEAD".

The "Blue and Gold" Banquet for scouts was on Friday night, 3 days ago in 3 inches of SNOW! Crazy West Texas weather will you have SNOW and 3 days later the kids are playing in the Sprinklers! LOL Anyway, Todd was in charge this year and he did a really good job. There was over 100 people there. I think it turned out awesome!! The boys are both 2nd year Webelo's now and get to start camping with the Boy Scouts. Next year will be big when they cross over from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Here is a Picture of Kamron "barking" the commands for the flag ceremony. Tyler was in the back carrying the US flag. I did not get many good pictures because I was too busy videoing. I got a new video camera for my birthday and was enjoying it!
Here is Kamron's cake for the cake baking contest. It was a Nintendo Game Cube. It was really good too! Martha, do you think you have some competetion in the family! LOL

Here is Tyler's cake. We even got a new large pizza box to put it in. The rules state there is NO female help at all. That is really hard for me to do, but I stay out! I wouldn't even go check the cakes as they were baking to make sure they were done. Tyler did a fantastic job putting the "Sauce" on the pizza to make it look like it was really a pizza. Todd and Ty mixed cherry JELLO with store bought buttercream icing to get the red color (Martha, I know you are cringing at the thought). Suprisingly, it tasted really good. They grated white chocolate almond bark for the cheese and made red fondant for the pepperoni's. IT was YUM! They didn't win a prize this year but they did awesome. My friend Deborah's son Jacob, won the grand prize! They made a popcorn bowl that was over flowing with popcorn. IT was AWESOME!! She is vacationing right now, but check back, I know she will have pictures of the cake on her blog.

We are heading to Amarillo tomorrow for some Spring break fun. Enjoy the sun, I am sure it isn't going to last!

This and that...

2009-03-01T13:41:00.007-06:00

I know, I promised to post more often, and it just didn't happen. The springtime is so busy I will make no more promises! The boys had their Lock in last weekend for Scouts. They had a blast! I honestly think the parents had just as much fun as the kids. They stayed at the cafeteria at Todd's school. They made marshmellow shooters, played with a parachute, had scooter races, etc. They had a blast! Here are a few pictures:

Unfortunally the pictures uploaded in reverse order. So here is the end of the night where the kids all relaxed and ate popcorn while watching Clone Wars. The lock in ended at 2 am!
After all the Marshmellow shooters were made, here they all are! Todd, myself and the 3 kids had to SCRUB the floor the next day to get all the THOUSANDS of stepped on marshmellows off the floor.

Scooter races! Even the parents rode on them. Most of my pictures of the adults on the scooters came out blurry, it was probably because they were going in lightening SPEED!! LOL

Here is Tyler on the scooters!

Todd shooting his Gun. The boys mentioned on Sunday that they needed to have a lock in every Saturday!

Tyler decorating his gun

Kamron with his bag of ammo!

Here is the assembly line of kids making the marshmellow shooters. They really were a HUGE hit!

This was all the kids at the beginning of the lock in. I think this picture is going to the local paper.

Tyler just LOVES Kyle!! On a funny side thought, Kay, Todd's mom dreamt last week that we had another set of twins, boy girl this time! Didn't think much of it, we all laughed it off. Friday I got an email from my mom saying that she dreamt that I had TRIPLETS..all boys! Todd and I have laughed at it, I think the kids were HORRIFIED when I told them! I don't know WHY the boys wouldn't want 3 more of their little sister!! LOL

Todd in the parachute. Remember the pictures uploaded backward, so this should of been the last in the sequence!

Todd being wound up. All the kids were placed in the middle of the parachute 2 at a time and spun!

Here is my little fashion model yesterday. She obviously dressed herself. It was so funny when I asked her about her outfit she told me that her socks were green and matched her shirt and her pink shoes matched her pants!!
Uncle Dain and Crissy, THANK YOU so much for the AWESOME basketball shoes!! The boys LOVE them!!! They have been on clound 9 since they arrived in the mail! Thank you again!!!

You are the best!

Be patient, the next few weeks are really busy! Say lost of prayers on Tuesday. All students in the state of Texas will be taking the first of the standard tests. TAKS is stressful on everyone, so when you wake up on Tuesday morning, say a quick prayer for all of those taking and giving the test! Thanks!

So sorry!

2009-02-17T19:57:00.003-06:00

I have been the bad blogger lately. I got wrapped up in reading and have read about 2000 pages in a week. It is all Tamora's fault! Anyway... not much going on here. The boys have started basketball and have their first game on Thursday. They are enjoying it! They also had to make volcano's for school and did a SUPER job! Everyone is well (knocking on wood) and I hope it stays that way! We babysat my mom and dad's dog this last weekend while they traveled to Santa Fe, NM to celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary! What a blessing they are to all of us.

I promise I will have pictures of the kids the next time I post! The boys are having a "Lock in" at the school for scouts on Saturday. I will have lots of pictures!

This week is OVER!

2009-02-07T19:33:00.002-06:00

I am really glad that this week is over. We are ready to start new! All 3 kids have been really sick and I am counting my blessings that Todd and I have not gotten it.

Addyson got sick last Friday and Kamron followed suit on Tuesday with Strep throat. I won the "Worst mom of the Year award" on Wednesday when I allowed Kamron to go to school because he didn't want to lose Perfect Attendance. He felt HORRIBLE all day but didn't come see me because he said I told him not to. I didn't. His temp was 102 that night. There is more to the story, but I won't go into that! LOL Kamron stayed home Thursday from school, no questions asked! Wednesday morning Tyler started complaining of not felling well and our WONDERFUL pediatrician called Tyler in an antibodic also. He was on it for more than 48 hours when he got a 101.5 fever at school after having LOTS of motrin. Todd was tagged and ran Tyler to Lubbock where he has a strain of the flu and we are not really sure if he ever had strep or if he was getting the virus on Wednesday. Last night about 7pm our peditrician called me at home to check on the kids. You just don't find doctors like that anymore. Ty did wake up with a fever this morning again but feels so much better tonight!

I am glad this week is over and I really hope that things start looking up in the Newberry house. I have no pictures to share this time, they would not be pretty! Lots of pale faces with red noses and dark circles under their eyes!

I have a special prayer request for a lady named Michelle. She is pregnant with miracle twins after surviving ovarian cancer herself. She is 24 weeks and in the hospital in preterm labor. As of the moment they have stopped the contractions with medicine, but she needs to keep these babies in for at least 6 more weeks. PLEASE pray for these precious babies that are so wanted by this special family.

100th Day of School

2009-02-01T15:09:00.004-06:00

The 100th Day of School is a big deal in the primary grades (PK-2). This past Friday was Muleshoe's 100th day. Addyson had been looking forward to it for weeks. It is a fun party day filled with hundred's of activities. One of the activities was to come dressed representing anything 100. You can dress 100 years old, put 100 of any item on a shirt, ect. Addyson was going to go dressed like they did 100 years ago. My friend Deborah's mother had a dress that she wore when she was around Addyson's age. Her mother made the dress and it came with a pettiskirt, parisol, and bonnet. It was beautiful! Addyson, my girlie girl, LOVED IT!

Thursday night before bed Addyson became really cranky and just not herself. She was running a 102 fever! I felt so bad because I knew she would miss her 100th day of school. We went to Lubbock Friday where she was negative for flu and strep, but her 02 sats were only in the 80's. They did a breathing treatment and started her on steroids. All day Friday she ran a fever, but is good as new today! Last night after her bath I dressed her in the outfit she was going to wear to school on Friday. She looked so cute! Here is my own "Laura Ingles".

Pinewood Derby time!

2009-01-31T16:19:00.005-06:00

Today was the annual Pinewood Derby. Todd is the Cubmaster and "the MAN" in charge. It went off perfectly! It was moved into his new cafeteria this year and it was so nice. We were able to have food and drinks, YEA! It had always been in a gym and there were no food or drinks allowed. Also he has a HUGE screen that they figured out how to show the races on the "Jumbotron!" It was fun. I am exhaused, and I know Todd is too. He is not even home yet. Here are some pictures of the kids and their cars.

This is Jessie, Grace and Addyson sitting so close to their Kindergarten teacher Mrs. King. They LOVE her!

Kamron's car, he got THIRD! We were proud of that. I think there was about 12 that raced in the Webelo's.

Tyler's car. Tyler did really well too. He didn't place but he had fun!

Addyson got to race in the "open" race where anyone can race. She didn't place either, but all the little kids that raced in the open got a trophy too. She is very PROUD!

In this picture you can see the length of the track and how the "Jumbotron" worked. It was really neat. Everyone could see everything!

In this race Addyson got 2nd.

Kamron got 1st in this race!

Tyler got first in this race. Look how close it was! Each race is done twice and the kids switch tracks. This race they each won once so there was a tiebreaker. Tyler lost the tiebreaker.

Kamron and Tyler with their trophy's.

Random pictures

2009-01-28T19:18:00.006-06:00

We have been busy this week and I got some pictures of our outings...

I went into Addyson's room one night to check on her. This is what I found!! She got this for Christmas a few years ago, and she still LOVES it! Thanks aunt Crissy! I found PINK makeup on Addyson's floor this afternoon. While I was mad and scolding her she informed me that she didn't get it on her carpet, NALA did (the cat). She said that Nala loves her makeup and was playing with it while we were at school! (She has quite the imagination)

Last Friday night we took the kids bowling with the Kettner's. We had so much fun! Here is Kamron:
And the bowler Tyler (he won with all the kids and beat me and Deborah too!)
And Addyson! She bowls at about 3 mph. It takes at least 1-1 1/2 minutes for the ball to get all the way down the lane!!

Addyson did run over the foul line ONCE and found out quickly why we said not to cross it! LOL
After bowling we went to eat at ShoGun. It was fun and quite entertaining!! Kyle found a lemon and after her learned that the kids were laughing at his "yucky" face he began sucking on it and laughing too! Is that not the sweetest face you have ever see???

We put all the kids on one end of the table. Addyson got excited and told me, "Riley wants me to sit by him" It was a fun night and I think we all decided we needed to do it more often.

Sunday afternoon Kamron and Tyler got to go to Kelly and Deborah's farm with Jacob and shoot guns. They were in heaven! They got to shoot Todd's 22, a 410, a shotgun and a deer rifle 223. They decided that they liked the 223 and the 22 the best. They didn't like how the shotgun or the 410 kicked! Tyler even had a bruise on his shoulder! Here is Kamron:
And Tyler: Thanks Kelly!! They had a BLAST!!!

Pinewood derby is Saturday! I will have pictures! Can't wait to show you Addyson's car this year. It was my special project. The boys did a supurb job on theirs and I hope we win some trophys! Enjoy the rest of your week!

Not me... MONDAY!

2009-01-19T20:09:00.002-06:00

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Trying something new, blogging about me!

I did NOT get mad at my middle child today and send him to bed at 7:00 for getting in
trouble at Cub Scouts without hearing his side of the story.
I did NOT complain (about 50 times today) that I hate when my husband is gone on business trips and I am a "single mom".
I did NOT secretely want to come home during school today to check on baby
Harper and her mommy. (Can't look at blogs at school)

I'm BACK!!

2009-01-16T19:11:00.008-06:00

I can't believe it has been 2 weeks since I have posted. I am suprised I haven't been scolded! School is back in session and it has been a busy 2 weeks. We were out of school today for the Bailey County Stock Show so I have a minute to catch up. I have lots of pictures from the last 2 weeks so they are going to be a little of everything!

This was at the stock show today. The kids had more fun in the big pile of dirt. We just had to keep them from throwing it! I think we are going to raise pigs next year! Th boys really want to so we are going to give it a shot. We know NOTHING about it but are willing to learn. There are lots of great people here in Muleshoe that want to teach us, so (to be continued...)
Addyson FINALLY got in the pen to touch the pig. She is WAY too prissy to get dirty and touch a pig! LOL

Addyson and Riley. She is planning her birthday party (even though she has 5 more months!) and informed me today that she wants a slumber party. I asked her who she wanted to invite and she named off 3-4 girls and then told me that Riley HAD to be there too! So, we had a short talk about girls spend the night with girls and boys spend the night with boys! LOL

Last weekend Addyson FINALLY stayed all night in her own bed. Big accomplishment so she got to have a friend spend the night. These 2 little girls had a blast. We made cupcakes about 9pm and they didn't go the bed until midnight. It was fun! The boys were both spending the night with a friend so it worked out perfect!

This was Addyson at 2:00 the next afternoon~ She was exhausted! LOL Check out the crown on her head!!

After sewing so much for Addyson, I am trying to make a quilt! I have 12 blocks finished but still need a few more. I am trying!

2 weeks ago before school started back we spent the weekend at Dan and Kay's. They have an awesome park down the street from their house that the kids LOVE. It is really neat!

This is the BEST!!! There is a video of it at the bottom! It was too neat!

KAMRON

ADDYSON

TYLER

Have a good week!

First Casualty of Christmas was...

2008-12-31T10:46:00.004-06:00

The boys received new Light Sabers that were a HUGE hit from my sister. They shoot out with the touch of a button. Addyson was standing a little too close to big brother Tyler when the button was pushed and it hit her dirrectly in the eye! After many tears and lots of "I am SORRY's" we are all fine and a big leson was learned. Here is the eye a few days later:

While Tamora and her crew were in Lubbock they made the 1 hour trip to Muleshoe and enjoyed a great lunch at Leals. It was one of our uncharacteristly warm days for December and they kids had a blast playing outside on the Tree house. The adults had fun rocking to Guitar Hero. We are so glad they came. The kids have got to spend lots of time with the cousins lately! We wish they all lived a little closer!

We went and saw "Bedtime Stories" yesterday. It was really great! If you haven't seen it yet, check it out. Your entire family will love it!

Happy New Year and stay safe. We are staying in this year and grilling hamburgers. The kids are excited about staying up till midnight, not sure they will make it, but they love the idea of it!

Christmas at the Newberry's

2008-12-26T18:45:00.001-06:00

Here is a look of Christmas at our house. I hope you enjoy!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Wedding at Christmas time

2008-12-21T08:06:00.005-06:00

Last night Addyson was a flower girl in a good friend of ours wedding. She babysat all the kids for a few years evey summer. The kids just loved Brandi as their babysitter! They played non stop all day! The wedding was beautiful and the bride was even more beautiful! It was a super evening. Here are a few pictures:

Addyson and Brandi at the reception
Addyson watched Brandi the whole wedding. She was mesmerized the entire time.

The three little girls walking down the isle.

Addyson practicing with tossing the flowers.

Posing for a picture!

Addyson really hit it off with the other little girl. They became instant friends.
It took alot to get this picture! This is one little girl on the GO!!

Giggleing little girls, Relaxing now because it is over!

One more thing, while waiting to take pictures I told Addyson to smile pretty and she looked at me and said, "I am a little nervous!" It was pretty cute!

Christmas Plays and Parties

2008-12-19T16:39:00.007-06:00

On Wednesday night we had the annual Christmas play at church. Our Minister of Music writes the play every year and he does a FANTASTIC job!! This one was no exception. Every year I think they are the best he has done, then when the next year comes around, it is the best AGAIN! This year it was a news cast. Kamron was a Helicopter reporter, Tyler was a camera man and Addyson was a Christmas tree. They even filmed commercials weeks before the play and played them on the big screen inbetween new cast's. Check out Kamron's Helicopter!!!

Here is Kamron, Addyson and Tyler waiting for the play to begin.

Addyson as a tree...see all the tinsel on her! LOL
Mr. Camera Man Tyler!
Do you see Kamron's Helicopter? Todd made it and it turned out fantastic!
Today was the last day of school for 2 WEEKS!! YEA! The kids all had parties. I was informed by the boys that they didn't need me to come. They are getting to big! I did however get to go to Addyson's party. Here are a few pictures:

SNACK TIME!
Passing the present game, which one will she get???

She got the green one, a Princess bingo, tic/tac toe game and checkers. She loves it

I almost forgot! Lolly (the baby doll) has been at the doll hospital for a month. She came home on Thursday night and Addyson has not put her down! I even had to take her to school with me on Friday because Addyson thought she would be scarred. (She wanted to make sure that I told all the teachers that she wasn't real though.. LOL) She has had her since she was 1 and some fabric that I used to make an outfit for her turned her black/green. It was pretty bad. So Memaw sent her to be cleaned up! (It was so bad that they just had to replace her altogether) American Girl Bitty Babies are the BEST!!

Addyson singing at her party today.

Making History!

2008-12-15T21:41:00.010-06:00

Well they did it!!! The Muleshoe Mules made history this weekend when they won the Class 2A Division 1 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! IT has been a week that Mule fans will not soon forget!

The festivities all began on Thursday at the Community Wide Pep Rally. It was Standing room only and the fans were EXCITED! Former principal, David Jenkins spoke, and fromer MULE Lincoln Riley (who is now a Tech coach) were 2 of the guest speakers. Also in attendance was SANTA! The Mule sat on his lap and asked for a STATE championship win. Santa delivered!!

Addyson hanging out with the MULE waiting for the pep rally to begin. (We got there 1 hour early to ensure a good seat. We had a GREAT Seat. I may have gone a tad to early!)
The TEAM during the Pep rally.

Head Coach David Wood giving a very emotional speech to the fans, town and the team!

Friday Morning was the Community wide send off. The football boys, coaches, cheerleaders, and families of the coaches left for Dallas about 9:00 AM. They took a detour in their charter buses and drove by all 3 schools. The kids made signs and yelled for the MULES. We were able to dismiss school at 1:30 to allow everyone to travel to Dallas on Friday if needed.

Kamron and Tyler are in the line of kids...do you see them??

There were TONS of signs and all the 3rd graders wore Mule ears! They were adorable.

We left as soon as school was out and headed to the Metroplex. As we were leaving Muleshoe there was a sign that read, "Last one out, TURN out the lights!!" I really wish I would have got a picture of it. It was priceless. I think the entire town was at the game.

We got to the 6:00 game at 3:30. Once again, I wanted good seats! LOL We had 5o yard line seats baby!!

Here is Tyler, Ashtyn, Kamron, Tamora and Addyson patiently waiting for the game to begin. I have to tell a story on Ashtyn, Tamora's 11 year old daughter. They live in Mansfield, large 5A school with a new stadium! She told me that they don't have high school football there, because they have not gone. I told her that they did indeed have football, it is just a tad different in a small town! The coin toss! (We won by the way)

Cheerleaders before the game.

Kirbyville was the wildcats. Our Mule and their Cat did the most adorable skit on each side before the game began. Of coarse on our side we knockeded down the CAT!!

They Cat and Mule "fighting"

Todd and Nathan
Tamora and Kierstyn
Tyler, Ashtyn and Kamron
Addyson slept the entire second half. The first half she asked the entire time when we were going to get the "Bigger Trophy" and she MISSED it!!
Kierstyn and Addyson, do they look mischievious! LOL

Kamron, does he look cold?? Tyler hiding from the camera

Kierstyn finally went to sleep!

Addyson sleeping

A very scarry picture of me!!

Muleshoe win aganist Kirbyville, this is the news article from the AJ. What a GREAT weekend it was. How 'bout them MULES!!!!!

A Christmas Funny and WTG TODD!!!!

2008-12-10T20:38:00.002-06:00

On Monday night we traveled to Levelland where Todd was awarded the "District Award of Merit" in Scouting. It is a VERY prestigous award, one that he truely deserves. We were all so proud of him!

On the way home Kamron was listening to his MP3 players singing, El Shaddai by Amy Grant. If you haven't heard it, it is a beautiful Christian song. If you have heard it, you are all singing it in your head right about now, right?? LOL Anyway Kamron was singing it and Addyson was so serious and asked, "Mommy, why is Kamron singing Elf's Should DIE!" We laughed so hard and had to call both sets of grandparents so we could share. In a little 5 yr olds mind who is always thinking about Christmas, she was wondering why there was a song about Elf's Should Die. We will be leaving Friday for the State Championship, hopefull my next post will be headlines of the new STATE CHAMPIONS!! Don't forget to tune to http://www.1031country.com/ to listen to the game at 6:00 on Saturday!

WE ARE GOING to STATE!

2008-12-07T19:41:00.006-06:00

Well the Muleshoe Mules are going to STATE!! Real men play Football in December, right! We beat Pilot Point 35-10 in Abliene yesterday. What a fun weekend we had. We drove to Abliene Saturday and visited Todd's grandmother and really suprised her. We ate lunch and headed to the game. The stands were filled! I think the whole town of Muleshoe was in Abliene supporting the MULES. We were very blessed with the beautiful weather we had, 60 degrees the whole game! It was really neat to watch instant replay on the big screen after each play too!! We play in Grand Prairie on Saturday at 6:00 for the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! I am so glad that Tamora lives minutes from Grand Prairie so we will spend the weekend with her. The kids are super excited to see their cousins again so quick. We were just there over Thanksgiving, so seeing them again before Christmas is awesome. You can listen to the game at http://www.1031country.com/ Click the "listen live" button on the right.

(This is an excerpt from an email sent out this morning)

HOW 'BOUT THEM MULES!!
What did that guy mean when he said, "The Mules aren't a physical team?" I think by the fourth quarter those Bearcats didn't want any more of the Mules! The Mules let them hang around in the first half so it would be worth their trip to Abilene, and then the Mules kicked them all the way back to north Texas. Now it's on to the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP! I like the sound of that.

It's been a history-making and record-breaking year. Here are a few examples:
No football team in Muleshoe history has ever won 15 games in a row in one year.
No football team in Muleshoe history has ever played in the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP game.
No football team in Muleshoe history has ever won the STATE CHAMPIONSHIP game

GO MULES!!! Can I get a HOO RAH!
Lots of Prayers for the Mules next weekend!! We are all behind you!!!

A bit of this and that

2008-11-23T20:55:00.009-06:00

I have lots of pictures to share before the Thanksgiving holiday so this post will be a little of it all.
The boys had their Thanksgiving lunch Friday but we kind of skipped out on it. I had volunteered to help serve and the boys really didn't want the school's Turkey and dressing (even though it was really good!), so I took them to Mc. Donalds and then home for the afternoon. They enjoyed hanging out and playing Wii all afternoon!

Thursday was Addyson's Thanksgiving lunch at school. The kids all dressed up like Pilgrims and Indians and they looked adorable!!

Riley, Addyson and Tobin..aren't they cute!!

Mrs. K, Addyson's teacher, Addyson, Jessie and Grace

The back of the little girls dresses. They have babies in them! How cute is that! The boys had them too.

Next we had the Mules football game where we slaughtered Littlefield! It was so much fun and we FROZE. It was 32 degrees when we left and I would of had pictures of the boys looking like eskimos, but I forgot my camera. Addyson stayed warm with Nana!

Saturday morning my mom, Addyson and I went to Holiday Happening's "Breakfast with Santa". We had a blast and Addyson LOVED IT!!

Addyson with Mrs Clause
Addyson and mommy.

Mrs Claus read all the kids a book. They loved it! See Addyson, front and center!

The kids got to write letters to Santa while they ate their Mc. Donald's breakfast. See what Addyson wants... a purlpe piano and guitar! The "elves" came around to all the kids and picked up their papers to hand deliver to Santa himself!

Addyson posing while we waited to walk up the stairs to the special room. We were 1st in line!!

Next was Riley's birthday party today. Kamron and Tyler were hired by Deborah to help the little kids by signing them up for "boot" camp, painting their faces, and demostrating the obsticle coarse. They had as much fun as the 5 and 6 year olds did. Here are party pictures!

Obsticle coarse time!! They had to crawl through boxes, walk across wood, ride a tricycle around chairs and then back again.
Look at all that CAMO!

Jessie and Addyson getting ready to race!

Mr Kyle... what a cutie!!!!!!!!!

The parachute was a huge hit! The kids LOVED it and Todd did a great job with dfferent things to do with it!

All the kids got to sit in the middle 2 at a time and we walked around and wound them up. When we ran backwards with the parachute they spinned FAST!!

Jessie and Addyson, I DID NOT tell them to pose, just smile. Look how they are standing. They really are the double mint twins! ( I think they were trying to keep their hats on)

Look at the cake Deborah made! She really needs to hire out and do party planning. She plans the BEST parties and the kids LOVE them! That was one yummy cake! Even the green icing! LOL

The recruits in the mess hall.

And the other end of the table. There is one big kid who is enjoying his cake! LOL

The "hired" help. They did a super job with the kids!

Addyson trying to hit the pinata. Kelly was moving it up and down and it really moved well on its own!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RILEY!!! We had a blast today!!

Lots of TWIRL!!

2008-11-16T15:40:00.005-06:00

I sewed all day yesterday! I finally got the underdress made for Addyson's Christmas dress finished and then started a new project. I sewed Addyson a twirly Pettiskirt! I got the best Chiffon from www.afc-express.com I can't believe it only took me about 6 hours. I am hoping to make one for my niece for Christmas as well.

Today at church Addyson held her ears while we were singing, she said it was too loud! Amazing how quickly she can hear!

After school a few days ago I found Tyler and Addyson in my office being so nice to each other! Kamron was taking AR tests so I didn't get a picture of him! (But if he was there that would of added oil to the water!) LOL

7 school days until Thanksgiving!! YEA!! Have a great week.

Surgery is Over!

2008-11-14T20:15:00.002-06:00

Addyson had surgery today, and I am glad it is over. She had tubes placed in her ears this time last year and Dr. Potocki said it was like jello in her ears. She failed her hearing screening at school in October so I called Potocki again. She failed worse this time than she did last year, so we scheduled surgery again. There are so many times that I feel people think Addyson is ignoring them when they talk to her, but the truth is that she can't hear them. Driving to Lubbock this morning bright and early, our Pastor called and talked to Addyson on my cell phone. She could not hear him and did not talk to him. On the way home, she talked to my MIL and she carried on a conversation for 30 minutes! It was so nice to know that she can finally hear!
Addyson did not wake up from the anesthesia well and cried for 45 minutes. We went to Krispy Kreme and got donuts and she was still crying. On the way to my mom's we passed Toys R Us and she wanted to go look. She finally quit crying as we entered the store and was PERFECT the rest of the day. We even went to Chucky Cheese for supper. She told me we were having a "Girl Day" I am glad today is over!